"Watching/listening now. So mysterious and soothing. What a wonderful way to launch into my planned astronomy themed month that starts in two days :) Thank You!
You know, the Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxy are expected to collide far far into the…"

"Working on a mix that incorporates tracks from "Empire", the new Biosphere/Deathprod album, Chris Russell's 'Still', Roach's 'Invisible', some Seconds Before Awakening, Microvolt, et al...mmmmmmmmmm...."

"Hay guys.... From Marsen:
Dear Friends, cellebrating the release-date of my new album "The Empire of Silence" you can get a 20% discount on the bonus track version (CD/digital) in the next 3 days at oktaf.com. Both versions include a 38…"

Amongst Myselves - 2015 and beyond...Hi all,It has been a while since I've posted anything on Relaxed Machinery. So here is a little update of things Amongst Myselves.My 2014 release, "The Past Is Another Country", has been out in the world for…See More

"This is a tough one Claude.
My roots have to still show through, like the foundation of a say a building, not seen but essential for that structure to stand strong. Perhaps over time the building is leveled and a new architecture rises but…"

"Yes, like in many posts, I just represent myself, no rights to speak in the name of a continent. Mainly wanting to know more about you Americains, although I know California is not like Texas, and not everyone inside a state are equal, but as you…"

Most of the Ello tech department worked through the weekend, getting everything ready for the release of Ello V2, which begins rolling out later later this week.

When that happens you'll notice an updated interface and new features. Better search. Full screen browsing. Drag & drop images. Even CodePen support. More details on that in a few days!

But what is most exciting about Ello V2 is what it does behind the scenes.

See, when we release Ello back in August we had just 90 of our friends on our network. Now we have millions of people using Ello, incredible positivity, and thriving micro communities — from art to photography to drag to graffiti. And Ello grows each day.

All that happened much faster than we expected. It's been amazing, but we realized this past New Years that with the current rate of growth on Ello, and with mobile apps coming soon, our system could eventually get overwhelmed.

So what we decided to do was to secretly rebuild Ello's backend. From the ground up. That's what we've been busy with for the last three months. We made the choice to get that hard work done now, so we can all celebrate later.

The arrival of Ello V2 later this week means we can grow a lot as a community without service interruption.

V2 is also engineered to make it easy to release lots of new features a lot more quickly: content search, tagging, Loves, bookmarking, private groups, private messaging, and more. Once we are sure V2 is out and stable, we will release these features one after the other.

And Ello mobile apps too! In fact, I'm typing this on my iPhone, using a prototype that our amazing Ello iOS crew is moving close to launch.

So:

Starting this Thursday April 2, Ello V2 will begin rolling to the Ello…

Italian soundexplorer, photographer and ethnobotany adventurer Marco Billi aka Jarguna returns with his newest "Anátēxis" album self-released during January 2015. Recorded between 2013 and 2014 at his Sound Course Studio, the album comes with attractive jewel case design, which include except stunning photos also painted and signed tray.

"Anátēxis" journey reveals with 21-plus minutes long "Lithogenesis", which straightly dives into deeply mysterious subterranean realms, where echoed organic sounds amalgamate with ghostly rumbles and undulating dronescapes. Heavier dissonant layers slowly permeate through before metamorphosing into cascades of industrial-infused rhythm movements. These sonic elevations are soon joined by perplexing voice ventures with didgeridoo howls. Expanding, intensifying and climaxing, then around the middle part relievedly diminishing into quieter terrains, yet hauntingly flavored with assorted cavernous and primordial traceries. Wow, a very immersing exploration awaits here!!! Primal rumbles announce the next piece, "Compression", on which Jarguna is joined by Tucson based soundcarver Nathan Youngblood, who is mostly known for his "Asunder" debut CD released in 2007 on SteveRoach.com label. Although the overall mood of this composition is rather cacophonous, its soundpalette is richly organic and acoustically hallucinogenic. Don't know exactly who is responsible for what, maybe Nathan might control most of those primordial scrapings. In any case, according to the pictures of Sound Course Studio, Marco is equipped with lost of toys and Nathan's studio is the same story, I can confirm that personally as few jam sessions still deeply resonate. Dense circles of menacing clouds persistently hang above, at times stealing the center stage, but the listening…

Hi everybody! Adding my name to the member's list has been a mind-expanding experiment. Now I'm from the old world, being old myself, and being a musician, I have this analytic way of listening to music, almost dissecting. Can't help it. I know better (since E. Froese's death) what influences you got from here, and that is quite different from mine (mainly progressive rock at the time). Does anyone want to discuss the differences between Europe & US, where you call any artpiece a "work", and talk about the distribution net as a "music industry"?

Out today on Omchaki Recordings is the remix companion to my downtempo and ambient album Balance. Varied Balance is really what it says. There's Dub Techno, Deep Techno, Ambient Techno, House, and Ambient represented on the release. Nine tracks featuring a lot of different artists from Zander One to Hiroshi Watanabe. Very honored to get such great remixes.